Without DNA analysis educated guesses would be the best a forensic scientist could offer, television programs like _CSI New York_ would be much less interesting and forget about identifying those ancient mummy remains.
University Police caution everyone in the campus community to be alert for encounters with wild animals, following a fox attack on a student in the Quad on Thursday evening, January 22. Though the victim was bitten on the shoe, rabies treatment has been ordered as a precaution.
Workshop proposals for the 2009 Social Justice Summit are due by close of business on Friday, January 30. Proposals can be submitted online at http://studentaffairs.humboldt.edu/multicultural/summit/index.php or dial Mona Mazzotti, Outreach and Social Justice Coordinator of the MultiCultural Center, at 826-3369.
Arcata – Humboldt State University is accepting applications for resident mentors and teachers to provide tutoring and other college preparatory services at the 2009 Summer Academy financed by TRiO Upward Bound, the federally funded program that helps limited-income high school students whose parents do not have a college degree.
Arcata – Academy Award-winner Tony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios and one of the major designers of Geri in the Oscar-winning short film “Geri’s Game,” will analyze the impact of the digital revolution on film making in an appearance at Humboldt State University.
ARCATA — Finishing off the first half of the California Collegiate Athletic Association season, the Humboldt State men's and women's basketball teams travel to take on top competition in Southern California this weekend. Meanwhile, HSU's spring sports will be busy preparing for their own rapidly approaching seasons.
“It’s something that wind players in Humboldt County have been talking about for ten years,” Kenneth Ayoob recalls. But a real wind ensemble demands thirty or more players. It just didn’t seem possible.
Skunks have a popularity problem. But Prof. William Wood, a chemical ecologist at Humboldt State, has spent his career focusing on how plants and animals use chemicals to communicate messages—including skunks’ famous defensive spray. Prof. Wood’s work will be featured next week on the PBS show _Nature_.
Humboldt State NOW recently added a host of features including new options for sharing and storing articles, new ways to stay up to date on all things HSU, and a new section dedicated to University Notices, the weekly university updates you're used to seeing in your in box.
CSU construction projects are being halted on all 23 campuses in response to a state freeze on $600 million in general obligation and lease revenue bonds that finance the projects.
Humboldt State has prepared a new handbook with extensive budget information for fiscal year 2008-09 titled “The Operating and Capital Budget Book,” available at the "Budget website":http://www.humboldt.edu/~budget.
The campus community should be aware of traffic impacts and pedestrian detours related to the construction of the new College Creek Apartments and the rebuilding of the soccer field.
There’s a moral of sorts to this story, but it’s a little tricky. Last semester, Professor David Campbell, a psychologist at Humboldt State, taught two online courses: Psychology of Critical Thinking (PSYC 100) and the Senior Seminar (PSYC 485).
The California State University announced today that it will defer State University Fee payments for the spring 2009 term for CSU students who experience delays receiving Cal Grants from the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC). Due to the state’s impending cash flow crisis, the State Controller and the CSAC have informed higher education institutions of possible delays in the payment of Cal Grant A and B awards for the spring term.
Arcata - Humboldt State University ranks 14th, up from 20th last year, among all medium-size colleges and universities contributing Peace Corps Volunteers, according to the organization’s Top Colleges list for 2009.
Arcata – Humboldt State University Police have issued a crime alert and safety reminders in the wake of the alleged sexual battery of a female HSU junior that occurred Monday, Jan. 12, between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. on the west side of campus along L.K. Wood Boulevard, between Sunset and Granite Avenues.
Dear Colleagues,
As I mentioned briefly at Spring Convocation yesterday, we are facing a challenging budget situation, and I want to share some additional information with you.
Arcata – Effective Monday, Dec. 15, and continuing until mid-Jan., Humboldt State University will redirect traffic to perform utility work in connection with the new student housing project, College Creek Apartments.
Arcata – Arcata High School junior Lilian Medford has won the inaugural Humboldt County High School Constitution Day Essay Competition, initiated by Humboldt State University’s Department of Politics and providing Medford with $221 from the Humboldt Loyalty Fund to commemorate the 221st anniversary of the signing of the nation’s most fundamental law on Constitution Day last September 17.
The California State University today announced additional cost saving measures that are aimed at maintaining jobs and student access to quality programs in the midst of state budget reductions. These actions follow the system’s decision in November to limit the number of new students entering in fall 2009, due to the state’s inability to fully fund enrollment growth and operational needs.
Arcata – The Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, a tri-county interagency body that includes Humboldt State University and advances mitigation of coastal earthquake and tsunami hazards, has received an award for excellence in innovation from a regional earthquake consortium headquartered in Sacramento, Calif.
Arcata—Humboldt State alum Hank Kashdan ('73) has been named associate chief for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service based in Washington, D.C.
Humboldt State University’s School of Business welcomes proposals from area companies and clients interested in obtaining marketing research reports prepared by students in the school’s marketing research class, taught by Dr. Nancy Vizenor of the School of Business and Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education.
ARCATA — Holding serve on their own court last week, the Humboldt State men's and women's basketball teams now seek road success when they travel for doubleheaders this week.
Two early-morning sightings of a mountain lion on the Humboldt State University campus this week have prompted University Police to issue safety reminders to the community, should they encounter a mountain lion in the area.
